student headcount, which undulates as enrollment drops in the early years and then picks up after FY17. In the past two years, the rate of expense growth per student has risen higher than the rate of inflation, due to larger wage & benefit increases than in the past, as well as state-mandated wage increases and programs. It is also worth pointing out that FY20 is the budget and assumes that all resources will be spent, which has not been the case in many years due mostly to vacancies.
Total State/Tuition Expenses per Student
2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000 6,000 7,000 8,000 9,000 10,000 11,000 12,000
FY14
FY15
FY16 FY17
FY18 FY19 (F) FY20 (B)
Student Headcount 10,569 10,453 10,850 11,343 11,578 11,634 11,784 Expenditures/Student $9,697 $9,922 $10,158 $9,770 $9,987 $10,407 $10,911 % Change 12.3% 2.3% 2.4% -3.8% 2.2% 4.2% 4.8%
Local General Funds The local general fund group is where most of the student fees are recognized, as well as the expenditures related to those fees. There is a very diverse population of fee types, but most of them are student fees to support particular student services. About one third of the activity is related to summer instruction (approx. $10 million), most of the net margin related to summer instruction supplements the college operating budgets and has the least restrictions on its use. Mandatory fees are also a large contributor to the activity of this fund group. These fees support athletics, student medical and health counseling, technology, and the Wellness Center. These fees support the areas specified in the fee charters. Course-specific fees are also part of this fund group. These fees are supposed to pay for either consumable materials (e.g. clay in a pottery class), expenses specific to a course (fuel for travel to a geology field trip), or specialized lab fees (isolated servers for the cybersecurity lab, flight training fees). These fees are, of course, restricted to the related course and are highly monitored.
Continuing education, multi-modal learning, running start and a variety of partnership agreements make up the rest of the activity in this fund.
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